Missing build dependency on libgnomevfs2-dev while building from upstream tarball on Quantal

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement]

When building libreoffice from upstream tarball on Quantal, "libgnomevfs2-dev" is missing from the build dependencies:

$ ./debian/rules get-orig-source USE_GIT_TARBALLS=y GIT_BRANCH=libreoffice-3-6
[...]
checking whether to enable GNOME VFS support... yes
checking for GNOMEVFS... no
configure: error: Package requirements (gnome-vfs-2.0 >= 2.6.0 ) were not met:

No package 'gnome-vfs-2.0' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables GNOMEVFS_CFLAGS
and GNOMEVFS_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.
Error running configure at ./autogen.sh line 187.
make: *** [/mnt/libreoffice/libreoffice-3.6.0~rc4/../libreoffice_3.6.0~rc4.orig-src.tar.xz] Error 25

[Borim (borim)]

I got the same error message when I tried to build libreoffice after executing:

sudo apt-get build-dep libreoffice

After installing the libgnomevfs2-dev package, everything worked.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)]

Thats expected. You should better build against gio instead, as the package does. HTH